G8 violence

"Then, in a fit of excessive cruelty, the kind of excess that
capitalism is best known by, the Carabinieri ran over his dead body
with a heavy police vehicle."

Oh, please. If you've any doubts as to his intent, look at this sequence
of photos:
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(which are also, albeit with a different slant, mirrored at
Nausea Manifesto) and tell me that if you were an occupant of that
vehicle, with busted out windows and people attempting to use a 2x8 as
a battering ram against your head, and despite your brandished weapon,
someone wearing a ski-mask came at you with a fire extinquisher,
apparently hoping to throw it in the vehicle (and perhaps break the
valve off in the process?), you'd have reacted with any more
restraint. Only one policeman fired, and only two shots? Give those
guys freakin' medals.

Again I ask where this fellow's self-sacrificing comrades might be
found, and why no one moved him from the path of the reversing
jeep. There's a fellow in one photograph picking up stones, easily
within shooting range of the policemen, but apparently he wouldn't
consider picking up a fallen comrade.

This morning I checked the latest Salon whine, which started " The needless point-blank police shooting of a protester...". Um. Yeah. Didn't get past that paragraph.

No doubt there are some well meaning people protesting, and no doubt there's been some skullduggery on the part of the Italian police, and yes, the rest of the world views the US as programmers view Microsoft, although why that should bleed over into the G8 in general I've no idea, but anyone who represents this kid's death as anything other than suicide by proxy or autodarwination loses my attention really quickly.

Now if we can only get the Israeli military to act towards Palestinian protesters with a level of restraint similar to the Italian Police we might see Middle East peace.

Regardless of the actions of this protester, I think it's a grave mistake
to think that only the anachist elements in the protesters were guilty of mindless violence. http://news.bbc.co.uk/english/...d_1457000/1457920.stm#top.banner
reports on the thuggery and mindless violence carried out by the authorities
in Genoa. I don't think anyone comes out of this very well, and given the beatings handed out by the police to some of these people, there could easily have been deaths which would have been murder, unlike the one death which
we did have, which I agree, could be regarded as self-defense.

I'm getting no data from that URL above. I've seen some reports of police ransacking the computers of one of the organizations involved in the protests, and of police infiltrators apparently instigating some of the rioting, but I'm also trying to remember if I've seen those reports from any outlets that weren't also attempting to canonize Giuliani.

There's an alternate set of stories linked from the front page of The Guardian
detailing events in Genoa (http://www.guardian.co.uk/). The Economist this week
had a good article on the whole debacle -- presumably it'll be on their website
in a week or so. If you go to the bbc news page (http://news.bbc.co.uk) you
should be able to find the Genoa stories fairly easily.

Oh, and you probably get nothing from the url because the URL as written in
your page is wrong; it conflated the word 'reports' onto the end of the URL
for no obvious reason :) Try removing the string 'reports' from the end of
the URL and see if that works...

The URL's not working for some other reason, 'cause nothing beyond the "#" is actually sent to the server (and I've checked with all the obvious variations), I get a perfectly reasonable header back, but no data in the document. I'll try to find it from the front page in a bit.